Isaiah 3:8
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8 For (A)Jerusalem stumbled,
And Judah is fallen,
Because their tongue and their doings
Are against the Lord,
To provoke the eyes of His glory.
1 Corinthians 10:22
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22 Or do we (A)provoke the Lord to jealousy? (B)Are we stronger than He?
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Malachi 3:13-15
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The People Complain Harshly
13 “Your(A) words have been [a]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 (B)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
15 So now (C)we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are [b]raised up;
They even (D)tempt God and go free.’ ”
Footnotes
- Malachi 3:13 Lit. strong
- Malachi 3:15 Lit. built
Hosea 7:16
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16 They return, but not [a]to the Most High;
(A)They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the (B)cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (C)in the land of Egypt.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:16 Or upward
Jude 15
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15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the (A)harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
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Matthew 12:36-37
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36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Habakkuk 1:13
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13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he?
Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (A)plowed like a field,
(B)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (C)the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:12 Lit. house
Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and (A)the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, (B)‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and (C)the Lord does not see!’
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have (A)filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose. 18 (B)Therefore I also will act in fury. My (C)eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they (D)cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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Ezekiel 8:12
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12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, (A)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”
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Ezekiel 8:4-6
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4 And behold, the (A)glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I (B)saw in the plain.
5 Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.
6 Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great (C)abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”
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Lamentations 5:16-17
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16 (A)The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this our heart is faint;
(B)Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
Jeremiah 26:18
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18 (A)“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(B)“Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become (C)heaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the [b]bare hills of the forest.” ’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. house
- Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. high places
Jeremiah 26:6
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6 then I will make this house like (A)Shiloh, and will make this city (B)a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
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Isaiah 65:3-5
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3 A people (A)who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
(B)Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense on altars of brick;
4 (C)Who sit among the graves,
And spend the night in the tombs;
(D)Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of [a]abominable things is in their vessels;
5 (E)Who say, ‘Keep to yourself,
Do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These [b]are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:4 Unclean meats, Lev. 7:18; 19:7
- Isaiah 65:5 Cause My wrath to smoke
Isaiah 57:4
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4 Whom do you ridicule?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
And stick out the tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
Offspring of falsehood,
Isaiah 9:17
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17 Therefore the Lord (A)will have no joy in their young men,
Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows;
For everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer,
And every mouth speaks [a]folly.
(B)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 9:17 foolishness
Isaiah 5:18-19
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18 Woe to those who [a]draw iniquity with cords of [b]vanity,
And sin as if with a cart rope;
19 (A)That say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work,
That we may see it;
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
That we may know it.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:18 drag
- Isaiah 5:18 emptiness or falsehood
Isaiah 1:7
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7 (A)Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Psalm 73:8-11
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8 (A)They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They (B)speak [a]loftily.
9 They set their mouth (C)against the heavens,
And their tongue walks through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return here,
(D)And waters of a full cup are drained by them.
11 And they say, (E)“How does God know?
And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:8 Proudly
2 Chronicles 36:17-19
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17 (A)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who (B)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand. 18 (C)And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon. 19 (D)Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.
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2 Chronicles 33:11
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11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with [a]hooks, (B)bound him with [b]bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:11 Nose hooks, 2 Kin. 19:28
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 chains
2 Chronicles 33:6-7
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6 (A)Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced (B)soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and (C)consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 (D)He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the [a]house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, (E)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
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- 2 Chronicles 33:7 Temple
2 Chronicles 28:18
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18 (A)The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there.
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